We already told you that TTArtisan will soon launch the following two autofocus lenses for Fujifilm X Mount.
TTArtisan 35mm f/1.8 AF
TTArtisan 56mm f/1.8 AF
The TTArtisan AF 35mm f/1.8 will be released on October 6 according to the official Chinese weibo page of TTArtisan here as well as the Japanese website asobinet.
TTArtisan AF 35mm F1.8 E/X/Z
・890 yuan [converted to 122 USD]
・October 6th
TTArtisan AF 56mm F1.8 E/X/Z
・Price undetermined
・Coming soon
Also the first images now appeared and I am afraid I can’t see an aperture ring on it.
Full List of Third Party AF X Mount Lenses
— Available, Coming Soon, Rumored —
During IBC 2023, SIRUI gave CineD an exclusive sneak peek of their first-ever autofocus prime lenses, called Sniper. There will be three lenses, designed for APS-C mirrorless cameras, Fujifilm included.
Sirui Sniper 23mm f/1.2
– 30cm minimum focus
– about 400g weight
– about $350
Sirui Sniper 33mm f/1.2
– 40cm minimum focus
– about 400g weight
– about $350
Sirui Sniper 56mm f/1.2
– 60cm minimum focus
– about 400g weight
– about $350
Two more Sirui Sniper lenses coming in 2024
You can see the watch the CineD interview with Sirui below and check out all the details at the CineD article here. Crowdfunding campaign will start on Indiegogo.
Full List of Third Party AF X Mount Lenses
— Available, Coming Soon, Rumored —
I hope Tokina won’t be demotivated by the 23/33/56 failure and will try to offer this little beautiful lens also for X mount., although so far there are no rumors about it at all (sadly).
That’s how some of the comments sounded on my various platforms after I have published the latest patents of the XF56mmF1.7 and re-designed XF18mmF1.4.
And these comments came after I warned you in the article that in 11+ years of blogging I have never seen a patent actually become a real product.
And despite my repeated warnings, some people keep taking those patents as an indication of what’s really coming next from Fujifilm.
But if it was really like this… I mean, if patents would really show us the way that Fujifilm is taking, then where are:
So, even though I feel a bit like Don Quixote fighting the windmills, I will give it another try today.
But I’ll take a different approach this time.
Because, well aware that a good number of people don’t go beyond the headline, I decided to create a headline that shows how absurd it is to put any trust in these patents. And hopefully, this will motivate people to look deeper into this subject.
And how do we look deeper into it?
Well, in this article we look at the 67 patents FujiRumors has shared starting from our first one posted back in 2012 until the latest one here.
Give them a look, and then make up your own mind if you should take patents as solid indications of future products.
It’s months now that we report about the upcoming Yongnuo autofocus lenses for Fujifilm X mount. In case you missed the previous episodes, here is what will come:
Yongnuo 11mm f/1.8
Yongnuo 23mm f/1.4
Yongnuo 33mm f/1.4
Yongnuo 50mm f/1.8
Yongnuo 56mm f/1.4
We also have shared lots of images of these lenses:
And now the Japanese website Asobinet reports that the Yongnuo will be released soon and a preliminary “experience meeting” is about to be held in China.
They also shared an image that you can see above.
It will be based on the lens design of the current full frame Yongnuo YN50mm F1.8 DF DSM and the selling price will be of 1799 yuan (converted to $247).
Some of these new Yongnuo lenses are going to have some stiff competition:
Now an image appeared on the Chinese social media Weibo (and spotted by the Japanese website Asobinet) showing the lens mounted on the Fujifilm X-H2S (you can see the image above).
Coming in June… with Aperture Ring?
If the google translation didn’t mess it up, I think Yongnuo said on their Weibo account that it will come in June.
Anyway, if they did add the aperture ring, than that’s definitely a nice touch and I wish other lens manufacturers would have done the same when they adapted their Sony E mount glass to the X system.
The complete list of autofocus lenses Yongnuo is planing to launch is:
Yongnuo 11mm f/1.8
Yongnuo 23mm f/1.4
Yongnuo 33mm f/1.4
Yongnuo 50mm f/1.8
Yongnuo 56mm f/1.4
Some of these new Yongnuo lenses are going to have some stiff competition:
One of them was the lack of a new X mount roadmap, considering that now with the XF8mmF2.8 R WR out, there is no more lens on the roadmap.
Now, at this point I want to make absolutely clear that this was just my very personal opinion. If you think differently, than that’s totally fine and your opinion has just the same reason to exist as mine.
But I also think what I said was a bit misunderstood, especially in regards the new roadmap, and here is why.
The main critique I got was that I should stop asking for new lenses, that what we have is enough and there is no need to rush out with more lenses.
But that was not the point of what I wanted to say.
What I wanted to say is that, despite everything we already have, there are still some lenses that people wish for and in some cases really need for their photography, as shown by our massive future X mount wishlist survey.
And Fujifilm can only win if they publish a new roadmap. Because:
people who are currently still missing certain lenses they need and see them on the roadmap, are more likely to stay with Fujifilm and just wait for the lens to come
photographers, who are interested in the Fujifilm system but are currently not yet using it because it does not offer a certain lens, they might actually start to switch to Fujifilm if they see that the lens they need is on the roadmap. They might to start to look out for good deals, buy into the system, and buy the lens they need later on.
Keeping people in the system and facilitate others to join by publishing roadmaps is a huge advantage that Fujifilm is currently missing out on.
There are only two potential downsides to publishing roadmaps:
if Fujifilm puts MKII lenses on the roadmap, people will stop buying the older version. But that’s a problem Fujifilm has solved by almost never putting MKII lenses on the roadmap
Roadmaps are a “promise” that Fujifilm makes to its customers. But it can happen that Fujifilm breaks the promise and makes changes to the roadmap (see XF80mm macro instead of XF120mm macro or XF50mmF1.0 instead of 33mmF1.0). And when changes are done, some customers might feel disappointed by those changes as Fujifilm “broke” the promise they made
But these two downsides are more than compensated by the advantages solid long term roadmaps bring.
And since I love Fujifilm and I want them to succeed, I want Fujifilm to take the best possible decisions for the system. And in this case, in my opinion, Fujifilm would only profit from giving us a new roadmap.
